Not all the news on Americablog has to be bleak. This front page story in USA Today is espeically fun because it's good news to us that the far right -- with its xenophobia and fear of "race-mixing" -- will see as bad news. In short, people under 40 are far more racially diverse than people over 40 in the US. White-dominated America will be a thing of the past in about another 40 years when our country will be a patchwork quilt of people from all over the world. And since young people are growing up in this brave new world, they'll resist or ignore entreaties to see blacks and Hispanics and Arabs as people to be feared. (It's the same trend that means the far right will ultimately lose out on pushing for hatred of gays -- young people in America have grown up with gay friends and classmates and they just don't care.) One especially telling statistic is on interracial marriage:
Marriages across racial and ethnic lines jumped 65% in the 1990s and make up one in 15 marriages in the USA, up from one in 23 in 1990, Frey says."Everyone realizes that we're a nation of diversity now, and they want to celebrate it," says Allison Cohen, president of PeopleTalk, a market research company in Wenham, Mass. "Americans have come to see diversity in their workplace, in who their friends are."
